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Duality

Blackness is beautiful and Vibrant of color

Our perspective is diverse but straightforward

Our blackness has a connection to everything

We are culture which is reflective of our importance to the world

Through our expression is how vulnerability is taught

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Connection
Perspective
Color - bright , hues, diversity
Expressive
Culture - identity

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Pain
Frustration
Reality
Solemn
Recognition

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Cold - Blue, Icy
Isolated - Singular, Abandonment
Illuminated  - Glowing, Uncovering
Claustrophobic - Suffocating, Tight
Elevated - New Thinking, Opposites.

The tight situation  presented is becoming suffocating.
Abandonment comes in more ways than one.
This blanket feels like a sheet of ice fighting to keep warm against this cold pavement.
Though, under this covering, glows  humanity.
In search of a new way of thinking to extinguish this...

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History - Knowing, Legacy
Layers - Shadow, Light
Texture - Complexity, Feeling
Truth - Reality, Myth
Beauty - Richness, Hues

Knowing the history of our legacy
The beauty and richness of our hues
Shadows of light and layers
The complexity of textures of feelings
Our truth makes reality out of myth

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Step 1: Write FIVE words (observations) that describe this work of art or what it is about.

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Step 1: Write FIVE words (observations) that describe this work of art or what it is about.

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5 Observations + Descriptive Words

1. Black  ( chilling, vibing)

Black(ness) more than a color, a void. All encompassing. At times a chilling, a vibe.

2. homegirl (beautiful, free)

"i'm going home, girl" "I'm chillin with my homegirls" "welcome to my home, girl" home  is where the heart is... whether boy or girl. Beautiful and free

3. Hair-braiding (joyful, easy)

at times joyful , hair-braiding can sometimes be a breeze. Fingers to scalp, gathering peas, laying grease, done with ease

4. intimacy  (soothing, relaxed)

The trust and intimacy of sitting between someones knees. soothed. tended too. relaxed.

5. Vibrancy  (cool, fun)

Black(ness) is more than a color, a void. Vibrancy. Color. Fun.

Title: Access Denied

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Step 2: For each word, add two descriptive words to describe each  observation 

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Step 2: For each word, add two descriptive words to describe each  observation 

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(think of this as building your poetry or statement).

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Step 3: Now, use each observation and the descriptive words to write an expressive line using active language (descriptors, active verbs, metaphors, feelings, etc.) to create a poem about the work of art. 

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Step 3: Now, use each observation and the descriptive words to write an expressive line using active language (descriptors, active verbs, metaphors, feelings, etc.) to create a poem about the work of art. 

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The lines can rhyme but that is not required.

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Surrender - trust, falling eventually
Flow - hand free, waving sun
Large - face lost, body demanding
Power - force bound, chest released
Vulnerable - muscles revealed, head covered

Fall Eventually

The body surrenders, trusts falling eventually
Flows fluid near the sky, hand free, waving at the sun
The body's large, demanding, face lost between nets and rays
Power, force bound beneath feet, tucked clean between knees, chest released to the heat and our noise
Vulnerable, muscles revealed, his head covered, how does he see?

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Step 4: Now, what would you call your creative piece / poem?

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Step 4: Now, what would you call your creative piece / poem?

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shadow - pulled in, darkness unseen
shade - pencil to paper, brown skin
empty - spaces unfilled, voice absent
eyes - one undone, black and calm
outline - unfinished, complete

The shadow is pulled in by lines, pencil drawing the darkness unseen
Shades made on paper that once was life, brown skin sparsely colored in
Spaces unfilled leave an empty spot you once were, voice absent and not to be heard again
One eye undone, one eye black and brown and calm
A complete unfinished outline of 26 years with 70 more never had

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Step 5: What does this say about your connection to your chosen piece? Describe why this is impactful, or simply put, why it matters.

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Step 5: What does this say about your connection to your chosen piece? Describe why this is impactful, or simply put, why it matters.

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Think about the implications of this selected artistic image and your ekphrastic poem on social justice, the multiplicity of identities, the messiness of the human experiences.